John Zachary DeLorean ( də-LOR-ee-ən; January 6, 1925 – March 19, 2005) was an American engineer, inventor, and executive in the U.S. automobile industry. He is widely known as founder of the DeLorean Motor Company, as well as for his work at General Motors.
DeLorean managed the development of several vehicles throughout his career, including the Pontiac GTO, Pontiac Firebird, Pontiac Grand Prix, Chevrolet Cosworth Vega, and DMC DeLorean, which was featured in the 1985 film Back to the Future. He was the youngest division chief in General Motors history and then left to start the DeLorean Motor Company (DMC) in 1973. Production delays meant that DMC's first car did not reach the consumer market until 1981, when a depressed buying market was compounded by lukewarm reviews from critics and the public. After a year, the DeLorean had failed to recover its $175 million investment costs, unsold cars accumulated, and the company was in financial trouble.
In October 1982, DeLorean was charged with cocaine trafficking after FBI informant James Hoffman solicited him as financier in a scheme to sell 220 lb (100 kg) of cocaine worth approximately $24 million. DMC was insolvent at the time and $17 million in debt. Hoffman had approached DeLorean, a man he barely knew with no prior criminal record, and DeLorean was able to successfully defend himself at trial under the procedural defense of police entrapment. The trial ended in a not guilty verdict in August 1984, by which time DMC had filed for bankruptcy and ceased operations.
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Date: 06 January 1925
By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES
All Ministers resign; Sarrocchi and Casati definitely out
Date: 07 January 1925
C W Rainke sentenced for selling "Radio Mystic," patent medicine not registered with Health Dept
Date: 07 January 1925
Special to The New York Times
Employes doubled holdings in 1924
Date: 06 January 1925
Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Prof T R Glover writes London Times news in Latin
Date: 07 January 1925
Final action on proposed cut of $14,000,000 postponed by House com
Date: 07 January 1925
Date: 06 January 1925
Will lease theatres to be built by W R Hearst and A Brisbane
Date: 06 January 1925
Prices break under heavy selling
Date: 06 January 1925
Kelly faces suspension for playing basketball with O'Connell on Coast; Pres Heydler starts inquiry